(March 2) The United States Congress passes an act banning the slave
trade, effective January 1, 1808. The law call for the seizure
of all ships fitted out for carrying slaves.

(March 25) The British Parliament passes an act abolishing the slave
trade starting in 1808. This act levies a fine of £100
per slave found on board a captured ships. Captains about to be boarded
simply throw the slaves overboard.

(February 8) Battle of Eylau.Two of Napoleon's corps are cut to
pieces by cannon near Eylau, but the French cavalry under Murat and more
infantry under Davout hold. Russian General Bennigsen eventually
withdraws.

(March 1) The British fleet near Constantinople sails back to the Mediterranean.

(April) Alexandria surrenders to the British, but Muhammad Ali's
Albanian troops trap them inside the walls after several regiments are
destroyed while trying to take Rosetta. The Mamelukes are no help
at all.

(May 25) Meanwhile, in Constantinople, the Janissaries feel their power
threatened by SultanSelim III's western-style reforms, and humiliated
by their losses in Serbia. The Janissaries revolt and imprison Selim,
putting their leader on the throne as Sultan Mustafa IV.

(June 23) The USF Chesapeake refuses the demand of the
captain of the HMS Leopard to board and search for British deserters.
Leopard
opens fire, Chesapeake is forced to submit. The British impress
four American sailors (previously-pressed Americans who had escaped from
the Leopard while in Hampton Roads).

(July 5) The British attack Buenos Aires. This is so poorly
planned that Spanish and Creole troops ut down most of the force.

(December 22) In response to British and French restrictions on trade with
neutral countries, the United States Congress passes the Embargo Act
forbidding all trade to and from American ports. This Act does
not have the intended effect.

According to legend, an English ship (the "Canton"?) wrecks off
the coast of Maryland. There is some confusion as to how many people
survive, but two Newfoundland puppies reportedly survive: the beginning
of the Chesapeake Bay Retriever breed.